Bill vs. The MCU: Marvel Zombies Era Part 1 - Hulk (2003), Daredevil (2003), & Elektra (2005)

Hello and welcome to Bill vs the MCU! Each month your hosts⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Pop Break Podcasting Director Alex Marcus⁠⁠⁠⁠ and⁠⁠⁠⁠ Pop Break Editor in Chief Bill Bodkin⁠⁠⁠⁠ are taking another step into the wider Marvel Multiverse as the MCU dives deeper into their Multiverse Saga.Bill & Alex spent all of 2022 rewatching the first four phases of the MCU, and, in the years since, they have covered all of Netflix’s The Defenders Saga, the first four seasons of ABC’s Agents of SHIELD, and all 14 films in Fox’s X-Verse.Now they are diving into their Marvel Zombies Era, where they run down some of Marvel Entertainment’s most notable and notorious films featuring characters the MCU would later reclaim! This month, they break out they Nu Metal mp3s and cork open some major daddy issues in time to review Hulk (2003), Daredevil (2003), and Elektra (2005), three films with less than stellar reputations. In a moment when Hollywood couldn’t get enough Marvel heroes, following the tremendous success of X-Men (2000) and Spider-Man (2002), why did these three films completely miss the mark with audiences, and how did Fiege and company at Marvel Studios redeem these iconic characters years later? Bill and Alex will get into that and so much more during this wild trip back to the mid 2000s.Come back next month for their installment of their Marvel’s Zombie Era, featuring reviews of 2004’s The Punisher (available on VOD), and 2009’s Punisher: War Zone (available on PlutoTV or VOD)!